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If the food industry was like the software industry

almost 6 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
A recent Quiznos commercial puts patents and “intellectual property” into perspective. How many companies or even industries wouldn’t...

abbr vs. acronym

over 5 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Thanks to Daniel for clearing this up for me: Brandon what am I supposed to use, <abbr> or <acronym>? Daniel depends on the context ...

acts_as_audited security update

over 5 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Thanks to Michael Schuerig for pointing out that malicious users could unassociate your audit records due to the use of has_many in acts_as_audited. has_many...

Upgraded Atom feed to 1.0

over 5 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Thanks to James Snell, I have updated this blog to use Atom 1.0. update: Benjamin Smedberg has taken James Snell’s Atom 1.0 templates for wordpress...

My First Rails Core Contribution

over 5 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
After spending the better part of the day trying to figure out why my .rpdf template handler was generating blank PDFs yesterday, only to realize that it...

Paypal IPN in Rails with Active Merchant

over 5 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Active Merchant makes it extremely simple to use Paypal IPN. Here is a simple guide for getting IPN up and running. Sign up for a Paypal sandbox account...

Public Key Encryption: the anti-spam

almost 6 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Daniel Morrison had an interesting post today about online sites using public key encryption (GPG, PGP, etc.) to reduce or eliminate phishing attempts and...

Tip: Overriding link_to to accept a block

almost 6 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
You’d think I would get tired of saying this: Ruby is amazing! On numerous occasions in recent weeks, I’ve needed some complex logic or multiple...

RPMs for Deploying Rails on CentOS

almost 6 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Thanks to mongrel, Ruby on Rails deployment is finally decent. Several weeks back I switched all of our servers over to using Apache 2.2 with mod_proxy_balancer...

RubyConf*MI open for registration

almost 6 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Registration opened for RubyConf*MI this morning. The cost is only $20, which is insanely inexpensive for the caliber of speakers that are going to be...